在擁擠紛亂的世界中維持內心的寧靜，這份寧靜可以透過舞臺上的表演與現場的觀眾，共同凝聚一個「活在當下」的片刻。
To maintain inner peace in a bustling world—peace that can join together the performance on stage and the audience off stage to create a moment for both sides to live in.
劉若瑀，曾是金鐘獎最佳兒童節目主持人，26歲時勇於拋下螢幕光環，遠赴紐約深造。為尋找真正屬於自己的文化肢體語言，返台後她全心全意探訪民間古老的戲曲、技藝，尋找自己生命的原動力。1988年，她創立優人神鼓，而後，來自馬來西亞的黃誌群加入擔任擊鼓指導。優人神鼓是在自己的寧靜中擊鼓之意，以「先學靜坐，再教擊鼓」為原則，是踏在臺灣多元文化的土地上，孕育出一套「道藝合一」的獨特表演型式。
Ruo-yu Liu, a former TV hostess and winner of the Golden Bell Awards for Best Children’s Programs, gave up the spotlight she had enjoyed on the screen and flew over to New York for further study at the age of 26. After returning to Taiwan, she made every effort to explore traditional folk plays and arts in search of her true cultural body language as well as her own drive for life. She founded U-Theater in 1988. Chih-chun Huang from Malaysia later joined as drum instructor. The idea of U-Theater is to drum in one’s own peace. Therefore drummers learn how to sit in meditation before learning drumming techniques in order to seek the fusion of “Zen and Art.” This is a unique performing style nurtured on the multi-cultural land of Taiwan.
二十多年來，劉若瑀和優人神鼓榮獲諸多肯定，更獲得國際藝壇高度重視，不斷獲邀參加國際重要藝術節表演。當藝術行旅已到達高峰之時，劉若瑀、黃誌群夫妻二人卻排除萬難，開始教導台灣彰化監獄的犯人打鼓，以鼓釋放出巨大的藝術力量來感化更生；他們更將訓練系統延伸至青年學子身上，以此致力教育與傳承。近十年的辛苦播種，孩子們不但有令人驚奇的蛻變，也讓我們看到：透過藝術文化的融入，在地人文精神充滿希望，更突顯出台灣獨特文化與土地的價值。
For more than twenty years, Liu, along with U-Theater, has received numerous honors and even won high praise internationally. They are repeatedly invited to perform at important international art festivals. While reaching the zenith on their artistic journey, Liu and Huang, now as husband and wife, started to teach prisoners in Changhua Prison how to drum, hoping to change them for the better by releasing majestic power of art through drumming. They further extend the training system to young students for the education and preservation of the art. Nearly ten years of solid effort has paid off. These young learners have not only gone through stunning changes, but also showed us that the integration of art and culture has given hope to local humanistic spirit and illustrated the uniqueness of Taiwanese culture and values.
